Posts Tagged ‘Buys’
Salesforce.com Buys Ruby Cloud-app Platform Heroku
Salesforce.com said on Wednesday it will buy Heroku, a company that specializes in hosting applications based on the Ruby programming language, for US$212…
Google Buys Innovative Startup Angstro to Help Build GoogleMe
Angstro , an experimental social-graph and news-crunching startup, has been bought by Google to help lead the company’s charge against Facebook in social networking. The acquisition was first reported on by Jessica Guynn of the LA Times . Here’s how Angstro describes itself on its website : “Inspired by the angstrom unit of rate (0.1 nanometre) named after Swedish physicist Anders Jonas …
Battle Weep? Google Buys Stealth Company Founded By Guys That Spurned Apple
The whole Apple/Google thing continues to get more fascinating. The two tech giant buddies are now clearly at odds with one another ( coffee dates and all ). The iPhone and Android are by now at war. And soon, the two will be at war in ads (AdSense vs. iAds) and portable computing ( iPads versus Chrome OS netbooks ). And chief up to those wars, both have been making some fascinating hires and …